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To the relief of local authorities, a court of appeals on Tuesday upheld the conviction of Jose Luis Sanchez Jr., one of two defendants in a notorious 2005 double murder that cost Yakima County taxpayers more than $2 million in legal defense bills.

After several years of sometimes tense negotiation, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital has completed the process of closing off its campus so hospital through-traffic stays out of the nearby historic Barge-Chestnut neighborhood.

Today, you are likely thinking more about trick-or-treating and keeping the neighbor kids from toilet-papering your lawn than what you’ll make for Thanksgiving this year.

Two Yakima County commissioners will see their pay rise by 1 percent next year, an increase that is in line with what the county proposes to pay other elected officials, nonunion and most union-represented employees in 2013.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 6.2 earthquake off the west coast of Canada on Monday night is an aftershock of the magnitude 7.7 quake that struck Saturday night.

NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without power, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air as superstorm Sandy steamed inland, still delivering punishing wind and rain.

YAKIMA, Wash.

Yakima police have made an arrest in the violent robbery of a coffee stand last week.

A public investment of billions of dollars to restore Yakima River Basin fish and assure a more stable supply of water for farms and communities would more than pay for itself, according to a new report issued by the federal Bureau of Reclamation.